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thunderbirfd 31.0 overrode an older version on my computer and I lost some of my files, can I recover these?

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I was using and older version of Thunderbird, when I downloaded version 31.0, it overrode the older version and I lost all my email files that I was saving. Can I revert back to the older version, or recover my Hold files some other way? Thank you, AndyLot19.

I was using and older version of Thunderbird, when I downloaded version 31.0, it overrode the older version and I lost all my email files that I was saving. Can I revert back to the older version, or recover my Hold files some other way? Thank you, AndyLot19.

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Do you know how old the original version was? Given that the current version is 38.5.0, even your new one (31.0) looks a bit old.

Older versions are available here:

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/

…but you'll need a fairly good idea of what version you were using.

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I do not have any info on the older version of Thunderbird that I had been using. I began using it in 2007, to replace a defective Windows Mail program. Later, I was informed of an update and installed it. I lost all my files. I do not know much about computers, but by trial and error I recovered my files. From that time on I avoided updating Thunderbird. Recently, I made a mistake and inadvertinly ran an update (38.0.1 not 38.1) Again all my files were lost, so I wrote to you for help. Without me doing anything , all my files are back. There is a different look to my "read mail" page in Internet Explorer 9, but everything appears to be back. Microsoft will not allow Windows Vista Home Premium to update IE9, so I installed Firefox, but can not find Thunderbird, so I use IE9 to read email. Can you help with that? Thank you very much for you help. andylot19